CHPT-14: Dodongo's Cavern, Part I
As we got to the top, I grabbed a bomb-flower and threw it over the fence, it landed directly on the boulder covering Dodongo's Cavern, and blew up
I decided I didn't feel like running all the way back down the cliff, so I just jumped down instead, broke open the rocks before the entrance to Dodongo's Cavern and got the hearts, Jess and Link copied
I rolled up my sleeves before entering, making my short-sleeves into a tank top sort of thing
"what are you doing?" Link asked suspiciously, watching me roll up my sleeves
"were about to walk into a room with molten lava…I think it's gonna be hot, and I hate heat…" I trailed off before entering into a room with a large stone door in the middle, and at the sides of the room were a row of bomb-flowers on each side
Jess walked to a bomb-flower, picked it up and chucked it at the door, and it blew up "that was fun! ...I like blowing stuff up!"
I had already began to sweat, and we weren't even in the magma room yet! I am going to die in there! I thought
As we walked through the door, I found I had thought right, it was at least 100° in there!
Jess didn't like the heat, but it didn't bother her too much, and Link barely seemed to notice it…I tried acting as if I didn't notice it either, but failed miserably
Link examined the room "alright, there's lava in a bunch of places so don't-" Link stopped as he looked at me
I had my hand to my head, breathing heavily, and looked as if I was going to die of heat
"Sonya…are you ok? You look ,well, dead to be honest" Link walked up to me, and studied me
I lowered my head "I'm…fine…just really…hot"
Jess suddenly joined in "Whoa! Sonya, are you feeling ok?"
I looked up, took my hand of my head and walked forward "I'm fine…really, I'm perfectly…fine"
"you don't look fine" Jess and Link stated in unison, and their concern was starting to annoy me, so to prove that I was fine, I jumped from the ledge we were on, to a ledge with a beamos on it
Link also jumped over, then Jess jumped
The beamos spotted Jess as she landed, and she shrieked "be a turtle!" which meant, hide in your shield (we think Link somewhat resembles a turtle when using his Hylian shield, and we say that whenever were in danger)
Of course, Link had no clue what this meant, but he followed our examples and also hid
When the beamos stopped shooting at us, we stood up and jumped across to another side of the room, but of course, I was weak from heat again (this happens a lot when I'm hot in real life) and didn't quite make the jump
Link turned around when he didn't hear the loud thud of my boots hitting the ground, of course he tried to save but also of course it was too late
I fell in the lava with a scream, awaiting the awful burning sensation that was bound to happen…but much to my surprise…it didn't…
I slowly opened my eyes, I was sitting on a large block of ice, and I realized the weird powers I gained must have been activated again
I stood up slowly and decided to test something out…I walked to the edge of the block, stuck my foot out and touched it lightly to the lava, all around my shoe ice spread out from it
I looked at the ice in shock, thinking well, this is quite useful!
Link and Jess were staring down at me…Jess was looking at the ice around my foot, Link was looking at my hand
I looked at him as if to ask 'why are you looking at my hand?', if Link understood what I was asking in my glance, he didn't answer
I walked over to land, climbed up the latter and made my way to Link and Jess
When I got to them, before Jess had a chance to do or say anything, Link grabbed my right hand and gazed intently at it
"what are you…?" I also looked at my hand…there was nothing unusual about it, just my plain old pale hand
Link flipped my hand over so he could see my palm "there!" he exclaimed, tracing 3 squiggly lines with his fingers
I stared at my hand…I saw nothing at first, but sure enough, when I looked closer, there were 3 very faint light blue squiggly lines smack dab it the middle of my palm!
"ah, they're nothing" I took my hand away so he couldn't study it (ok, I know I said I had bought gloves before...but, I took them off because it was too hot)
"but I saw them glow-" Link was cut off by me
"your hallucinating!" I snarled "they're nothing, ok!"
Link looked taken back by my sudden rage
"sorry" I grumbled "it's the heat, I get mad sometimes if I'm too hot" I sighed and looked around the dungeon whistling tunelessly
"well...what now?" Jess asked, even she forgot what to do
I looked around once again then shouted "over there, to the right! That's the pathway!"
"no need for screaming in my ear!" Stratta yelled, she had been sleeping peacefully on my shoulder instead of under my hat where she belonged
I grabbed Stratta, not even responding to her comment, almost squishing her like a bug, and threw her in my hat
We walked to a door and I entered calmly, I had gotten somewhat used to the heat, so I wasn't really that irritated anymore, but Link entered cautiously, he didn't know what to expect
Jess stayed behind, she knew we would have to kill lizards, and she loves lizards, so do I, but I think of it as...putting them out of they're misery
As anticipated, a pair of baby Dodongo's came out of the ground, and also as anticipated, Link didn't know what they were so he began hacking at one of them
I knew they were close to harmless, and sliced at it, then ran away, Link stood next to the Dodongo he killed…it began to blink
Link took no notice, I was about to warn him, but changed my mind, hey, I needed a good laugh
"you know what these are?" Link nodded his head towards the now very rapidly flashing baby lizard "hey…what's it doin-"
It blew up. Link stood there, stunned, charred
I hollered with laughter, then replied through snickers "yes I…I…know what they are…they're baby Dodongo's, and they…blow up after they…die"
"and you knew this…?" Link looked a bit angry
I nodded sheepishly
"and you never told me…?" Link looked very angry "why didn't you tell me?"
I paused before answering "I needed a good laugh, and I got it!" I began laughing again
Link silently fumed as I walked over to a door with two switches by it, and signaled for him to help move the statues
I grabbed a statue and pushed, it moved…barely harder than it looks…I thought, then looked over at Link, he too was having trouble, but not as much as me…
I thought I was stronger than Link…oh well, guess not I got a firmer grip on the statue and pushed as hard as I could…this time it moved quite a bit, but I had used a lot of my strength
I looked back at Link he already had one switch down, and was walking over to me
I pushed again, this time it moved a more, less than last time, more than the first
"need help?" asked Link as politely as he could, smiling
"uh, yah I guess it wouldn't hurt…" I smiled back at Link, wondering why he wasn't angry at me anymore
Link smirked "too bad!" he began to laugh, then sat down to watch me move the statue
I scowled and turned my head away from him, then pushed harder
"that's for letting the lizard explode on me!" Link yelled "it's called karma! What goes around comes around!"
"ah, shuddap" I barked, angrier than ever at him
"what if I don't feel like it?" Link asked smugly, smirking to himself
"like you said, what goes around comes around, when I have control of my powers, I'll turn you into a freakin' block of ice" I stated, placing the statue on the switch
"right, whatever" Link got up and walked through the door, I trudged behind him, but before entering put on my Deku Shield, and told Link to also
Right before we got to the spot where the Lizalfos fall down, I grabbed Links Deku shield and threw it in the lava; he stared at the lava, then at me
"what was that for?" Link shouted angrily
"Like you said, what goes around comes around" I stated bluntly, just then the Lizalfos dropped in front of us
Link saw the Lizalfos but didn't forget his anger, as he jabbed one in the shoulder, he shouted "you've got it wrong, you see, you did something bad to me, so I did something bad to you, we should have been even, but then you did something bad to me, so now I have to do something bad to you again, to make it even!"
I side-jumped out of the way of a lizalfo attack, then took the opening, got behind him and thrust my sword in his back a few times, the lizard spun around and hit my shoulder with a strong blow, I staggered backwards
I made a mistake and took a few seconds to look at my wound, in this time, the lizalfo jumped up, dagger ready, about to slice me in half, but luckily, my reflexes kicked in and I held my shield in front of me, protecting myself
I wish I could say the same for my shield, it was hit so hard, the wood split in two "Even enough for ya!" I screamed to Link, we were both shield-less now
You see, in the game, it takes no time to switch shields, technically this was the game, but no one was at the controller controlling us, so it actually took some time
"No! I didn't do it, it doesn't count!" Link yelled doing a back-flip to avoid a blow from the lizalfo, then Link side-stepped around the lizard and stabbed its side, one more blow and it'd be dead, me on the other hand, was on my finishing blow
I ducked from a high strike from the lizalfo, but wasn't quick enough to get up and got hit on the thigh by his low strike I stumbled rearward, but I caught myself and dodged another attempt of a hit
the blow was powerful and long, it took him time to recover, but he never did recover because I killed him before he could
a door unlocked and, me and Link exited through it
I looked in my pockets, sighed, and asked "aw crap, you got any money? I'm broke"
Link checked his pockets, too "um, I got 5 rupees, why?"
"aww…shi- we don't have enough money for even one shield" I switched my shield, then cracked my knuckles
"what's through here?" Link looked down the dark hall, saw a few torches, and heard heavy footsteps
"full-grown Dodongos, these ones aren't as easy as the babies were, you have to get their attention, dodge their fire-breath, then stab their tails, also they'll swing around after you hit their tails so watch out" I began to walk into the room
"wait, do they explode when they die like the babies?" Link asked
"oh, yeah, that too, watch out for that" I informed, and we both set after the Dodongos
After killing the Dodongos and lighting the torches we were back in the main room, we went down the hall and pressed the switch, a door un-locked on the other side of the room
We then walked over to a misplaced piece of wall
"why are we over here? What's behind that wall?" Link asked suspiciously
"why don't you blow it up and find out?" I inquired
"NO! I want to blow it up!" shouted Jess, we had met back up with her at the wall, she grabbed a bomb-flower and threw it at the wall, and we walked through
In the room was a chest and a staue…or really an Armos, but Link didn't know that, so, before I could say anything, he walked over to it and began to push it
Now, Armos are activated by touch, and of course when you push something you usually touch it, as Link pushed on it, the statue flashed red and made an angry grunt
"watch it!" I screamed, and without thinking, grabbed a bomb-flower, I ran up to it and threw it at the living statue
"run!" I grabbed Link's wrists and pulled him away from the Armos, which was flashing, and about to explode
Link was surprised, it happened so fast, I barely knew what happened, but he figured it out in a second "uh…thanks"
I smiled wearily, also confused by what had just happened "um, your welcome?"
"nice" Jess half-complimented me
I walked over to the chest the Armos had been guarding, opened it and grabbed the compass
We then went to another room, it had 2 rows of bomb flowers, with a split in the middle, and a bomb-flower across the room
I didn't feel like waiting for Link to figure it out, so I grabbed the bomb-flower immediately and threw it between the two rows, and it set off a chain reaction
"cool…" Link stared at the pillar which was now forming a stairway
"yah" I agreed "explosions are cool" I climbed up the stairs, Link following next to me, and Jess behind (she was struggling with her axe, which was heavy to climb with)
We walked up the wooden path and entered the next room…
Yah, yah, crap ending, I know! I had to end it somewhere though, I would've made a better ending, If I had time, but I needed to get this chapter up, so deal with it and please review!